American plumbing, in particular toilets make me IA. Also sewer lines, as of today. I've probably ranted about this before but seriously the toilets carry way too much water and nowhere near the amount of waste they need to, totally inefficient and unless you live in a brand new house, your plumbling likely dates from the 70's or earlier. Houses don't have downpipes, ugh it's just a waking nightmare.

Our house is 100 years old, or almost. And our sewer has been getting attacked by tree roots ever since we bought the place, so we've always had to be careful with our water usage because the cleanout will blow if you look at it sideways. We finally bit the bullet and had the problem part of the sewer line replaced, the part that runs through the back yard (ie where all the tree roots are). I was under the impression we were dealing with either deteriorated clay or metal pipe. Nope. 1950's era TARPAPER pipe.Seriously America. WTF. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangeburg_pipe

haha, yeah, that is really the only one that would fail. My parents just had theirs replaced. I don't get why the hell you'd have that if your house is that old -- that means it was replaced already, with that crap!

Basically they used that during WW2 and then people were like "eh, whatever" and kept using it until nearly 1970 in places with decent housing codes, and even longer elsewhere. It was really only meant as a temporary-use product, but people were all into saving money.

Yeah in the wiki it says it was primarily used as electrical conduit, and oil companies used it but ugh omg it fails so they stopped...which didn't seem to deter anyone from using it for plumbing. Lol oldentimes.

Re rapping on public transit: I've witnessed it enough that I think it's a thing. Some people do it softly (like someone singing along to music on headphones) but the ones that bug me are those who project. Usually on trains or platforms, usually during off-hours.

There is one guy who I see at the El station near my work who is always doing it, and he seems like he might have mental health problems b/c he gets in others' personal space raps *at* them. He doesn't really look scary or out of place amongst the university students - early 20s, bookbag sometimes, decent clothes - but he's a dick.

He scared the PISS out of me once as I was waiting in one of the plexiglass shelters. I'd noticed him on the platform but I was reading and I tuned him out, and he slammed his palms on outside of the plexiglass wall I was leaning on. I jumped and screamed and he looked me in the eye, said "haha" (not actually laughing) and walked off.

He's gonna do that to the wrong person someday and wind up on the tracks.

Public rappers/singers don't make me IA (unless I'm already grumpy and am perched to be IA at anything that disrupts a quite train ride) but sometimes they make me nervous if they are very drunk or using public performance as an aggression tactic. When someone is wearing headphones and rapping/singing along nice and loud, I'm mostly amused because I'm pretty sure they sound a lot cooler to themselves than they do to the rest of us.

People who use LOLCAT speak in real life, and yes they do exist, I feel bad about it because I dont know if it's so much different than me quoting Lasagna Cat videos all the time, just people who intentionally mess up their grammar or pronunciation to match some internet meme or some rap song they heard (people who instinctively say "errrbody" or "sammich"), dunno why I'm so mad at this

I'm able to tolerate most public rappers, but the ones that bother me are the ones being like horrifically violent and/or misogynist when doing so. I remember one guy on the red line, describing how we would decapitate and disembowel everyone on the car with him. It would be like, "guy in the red coat, I'll make your body float, cut your head off clean, then eat your spleen" (not verbatim, but yes the lyrics were that awful and would be laughable if it wasn't for the context). Thing was he looked like any other white Columbia student. Maybe it was "performance art".

It is really not acceptable to eat your home fries from Tupperware with a fork - with a little ketchup dipping puddle, even - while standing on a packed rush hour bus. (stylishly casual early 20s woman with complicated, angular hair)

- x work-related process happens every week, the same day, the same time of day. for a short period of time, a certain part of the system is locked out to users. and yet, every week, one person acts like this is a brand new thing that he didn't know about and hasn't been working with in some form or another for the past 4 years. it's like Bart Simpson and the electric zap punishment. He just. Does. Not. Get. It. And complains about it every week like we should have a butler come over to his desk and announce personally to him that x process is happening and please refrain from using the system...EVEN THOUGH THE SYSTEM IS ALREADY DOING EVERYTHING BUT SENDING A BUTLER TO TELL HIM THAT IN THE FIRST PLACEiiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaia

Coworker just bought some Halmark stuffed rabbit toy that comes with a book, and you read the book and the toy responds to voice commends. The books are all about how the little girl rabbit wants to be a grown woman but is really into tea parties and dress up and lots of girl things. Anyway, the one sample interaction goes like this:

Reading person: Abigail, is that how a lady acts?Stuffed rabbit responds, giggling: No. I'm so embarrassed!

I deserve a damn academy award for keeping a neutral face during this display. I want to throw that town in the fucking lake.

Coworker just bought some Halmark stuffed rabbit toy that comes with a book, and you read the book and the toy responds to voice commends. The books are all about how the little girl rabbit wants to be a grown woman but is really into tea parties and dress up and lots of girl things. Anyway, the one sample interaction goes like this:

Reading person: Abigail, is that how a lady acts?Stuffed rabbit responds, giggling: No. I'm so embarrassed!

I deserve a damn academy award for keeping a neutral face during this display. I want to throw that town in the fucking lake.